Knitting-machine.



PATENTED MAY- I4, 1907.

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pirnn STATES PATENT OFFICE,

LOUIS N. D. WILLIAMS, OF OGONTZ, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE HALF TO ROBERT SCOTT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. I

KNITTING-MACHINE.

No. 853,668." Specification of Letters Patent. Patented May 14,1907. I Application filed April 21, 1908. Serial No, 163,710. 7

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. Be t known that 1, Louis N. D.WILLIAM.S,1 cylinder needles being projected when the a citizen of the United-States, residing in\ dial needles are retracted, as shown at the i Ogonta, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, right hand side of Fig. 1, and the dial needles 5 have unvented cer'tain Improvements in being projected when the cylinder needles to Kmttmg-Machines, of which the following are retracted, as shown at the left hand side 1s a specification. K of Fig. 1.

.hly presentinvention consists of an im- ()win to the fewer number of dial yarn rovenient in the knitting machine for which l guides and the fewer number of sets of dial 'ro 'etters Patent No. 714,998, were granted to plate cams as compared with .the yarn 6:; Robert W. Scott and myself on the 2nd day guides and cams of the cylinder, the fabricof. December, 1902, as assignees of David 0. formed upon said dial needles will have a Bellis, the object of my present invention correspondinglylesser number. of courses of being to so construct a machine of the charstitches and it will also have a lesser number 1 acter. specified in said patent as to cause it of wales of stitches, for, as will be observed 70 r to produce a fabric, which, while of the same on reference to Fig. 3, the dial has a'lesser general character as the fabricv produced on number of needle grooves than the cylinder, said patented machine, differs specifically having in the present instance, only half as therefrom, "said improved fabric forming the many, hence the fabric produced upon. the

subject of application for patent filed by me machine shown and described will have in 75 or even date herewith. one web,- namely that produced upon the dial in the accompanying drawings :'Figul e .1, needles, only half as many wales of stitches is a sectional view of suilicient of a knitting and half as many courses of stitches as the machine toillustrate my present invention fabric produced upon the cylinder needles.

2 Fig. 2, is a sectional view, on a larger scale, By reason of this construction coarse yarns 8o of'part of the machine, illustrating one of can be psed in connection with the dial the operations of the same; Fig. 3, is a plan needles and yarn guides, and such yarns can view of the needle dial and needle cylinder be com osed of linen or other fiber possessing of the machine; Fig. 4, is an inverted plan much ess flexibility than cotton or wool,

50 view of the dial cam plate, and Fig. 5, is'a thus permitting of the use, for one of the 8 view of the cams of the cylinder-cam box, Webs of the fabric, of yarns of a character displayed on a flat plane. Whichcannot beused in machines of fine gage.

The machine, in its general construction, Certain of the-dial. needles have longer is similar to that of' the prior patent, the verstems and shorter butts than others, these 'tical needle cylinder being represented at 1, long stemmed dial needles being acted upon 0 the needle dial at 2, the cylind'r cam box by a earn 7 of the dial cam plate so as to be I at 3, and the dial cam plate at 4. The needle projected at such apoint as to receive yarn cylinder and dial may be stationary and the from one of the cylinder yarn guides 5, there cam carrier may be caused to rotate, or the by forming upon? these special dial needles o reverse construction may be adopted if loops or stitches of yarn 'drawn from the 5.

' desired. other web and serving to tie the two webs A series of yarn guides 5 are em loyedfor together at a pro'priate intervals, the knitfeedingyarn to the cylinder nee les and a ting cams oft edial cam plate being recessed lesser number of-yarn guides -6-are employed as shown in Fig. 2 so as to permit of this de 5- for feeding yarn to the dial needles, there sired projection of the special dial needles 1 being in the present instance, six cylinder Without, however, losing control. of the other guides 5 and three dial yarn guides 6, and longer-butted dial needles that point.- as show n in Fig. 4, the cylinder cam box hav- It is immaterial what fractional relation ing, as shown in Fig. 5, a number of sets of the needle grooves and yarn guides of the cams corresponding with the number of cyldialbcar to the needle grooves and yarn indcr yarn guides, and the dial cam plate havguides of the cylinder, although in practice ng, as shown in Fig. 4, a number of sets of we have found that good results are attained cams corresponding with the number of dial when the cylinder has twice as many needles, yarn uides, so that the needles of the cylyarnguides, and sets of operating cams as 5 5 ind'er and dial will be pro ected to receive the dial.

' carriers for I The edventegeof my invention may, in a measure, he ohteined by employing a lesser ii of dial yarn guides or e lesser 1111111 f eiel. needlesonly in respect to the yarn and needles of the cylinder instead of no a lesser number of both dial yarn aid diel needles, although the hitter iotion preferred. wi he evident that my invention can milled in a machine which is pructireverse of that shown and de- .1, that is to sny, one in which the reactions apply to the number of cylinder dle grooves and cylinder yern'guides, as wired with the corresponding elements e dial structure, although such reducwen best be made in connection with structure. mg thus described my invention, I a and desire to secure by Letters Patent: 7 f1. knitting machine in which are comtwo sets of needles, carriers therefor, s of yarn guides and cams operating junction with the needles of one carlesser number of yern guides and cams g in conjunction with the needles of. her carrier, sndmeens whereby certain c needles of one set may, at intervals, he ed to engage with ye'rn normally fed to or A knitting machine in which are com two sets of needles, one set comprising; number of needles than the other, for said two sets cl needles, camsoperating upon each set of needles, guides feeding yernto each set of needles independently, end means whereby certain of the needles of one set nnty, at in tervals, be caused to engage with yarn normally red to the needles of the other substantially as specified.

it knitting machine in which are combined. two sets of needles, one setcomprising s lesser number of needles than the other, said sets of needles, :1 series of n. guides and came co-operating with the of needles comprising the greater numlee, lesser number of yarn guides and cams ;les oi the other 'set, sul'istnntially as:

l l l l I l l l l l cooperating with the set 01" needles con'iprising, the lesser number, and means whereby certain of the needles of one set nmy. lit intervals, be caused to engage with yarn normally ted to the needles of the other set, substentielly as speciliez'l.

l. A knitting machine in which are combined. two sets of needles, carriers therefor, a series of yarn guides and cums operating in conjunction with the needles of one cnrrier, a lesser number of ynrn guides and cums operating in conjunction with the needles of the other carrier, and means whereby certain of the needles of the set having the lesser number of yarn guides and cams may, at intervnis, be caused to engage with yarn normally fed to the needles of the other set, substnm tinvlly as specified.

5. A knitting machine in which are com bined two sets of needles, one set comprising a. lesser number of needles than the other,

carriers for said two sets of needles, yarn guides and cams co-opereting with each set oi needles, and means whereby certain of the needles of the set having the lesser number may, at intervals, be caused to engage with yarn normally fed to the needles of the other set, substantially as specified.

A knitting machine in which are combined two sets of needles, one set comprisinga lesser number of needles than carriers for said sets of needles, n series of yarn guides and cums co peruting with the set of needles comprising the grentm' number, a lesser number of yarn guides and cums co operating With the set of needles comprising the lesser number, and means t-ain of the needles of the set having the lesser number may, at intervals, be caused to engage with ya-r11 normally led to the needles of the other set, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS D. l l ll lilAlllS. Witnesses F. E BEcn'roLn, JAMES C(KRAYER.

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